Job 27:8 “For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off, when God takes…”

Job 27:8

For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?

World English Bible

For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

American Standard Version

For what is the hope of the godless, though he get him gain, When God taketh away his soul?

Geneva Bible 1599

For what hope hath the hypocrite when he hath heaped vp riches, if God take away his soule?

Darby Translation

For what is the hope of the ungodly, when [God] cutteth him off, when God taketh away his soul?

Young's Literal Translation

For what [is] the hope of the profane, When He doth cut off? When God doth cast off his soul?

Bible in Basic English

For what is the hope of the sinner when he is cut off, when God takes back his soul?

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Cross references

“For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?”

Matthew 16:26 Job 11:20 Job 13:16 Job 15:34 Job 20:5 Job 31:3

Matthew 16:26 · BSB

What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?

Job 11:20 · BSB

But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; they will hope for their last breath.”

Job 13:16 · BSB

Moreover, this will be my salvation, for no godless man can appear before Him.

Job 15:34 · BSB

For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.

Job 20:5 · BSB

the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?

Job 31:3 · BSB

Does not disaster come to the unjust and calamity to the workers of iniquity?

Also

Job 8:13 Matthew 23:13

Job 8:13 · BSB

Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so the hope of the godless will perish.

Matthew 23:13 · BSB

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

7May my enemy be like the wicked and my opponent like the unjust.

9Will God hear his cry when distress comes upon him?

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